Al-Siyasa al-Shar'iyya fi Islah al-Ra'i wa al-Ra'iyya

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Al-Siyasa al-Shar'iyya fi Islah al-Ra'i wa al-Ra'iyya
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Author Ibn Taymiyyah
Original titleالسياسة الشرعية في إصلاح الراعي والرعية
Language Arabic
PublisherMinistry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Publication date
First edition, 1418 AH
Publication placeFlag of Syria (2025-).svg Damascus
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages136

Al-Siyasa al-Shar'iyya fi Islah al-Ra'i wa al-Ra'iyya (meaning: The politics or policy of the Shariah (Islam) in purifying the ruler and the ruled) [1] is a book written by Ibn Taymiyyah which he wrote about political aspects of Islam in the form of a letter to a guardian of Islamic authority. It covered what a Muslim ruler should do in fulfilling his trust and ruling among the people justly within the limits of Islamic law. [2] It included explanation of just politics and the righteous guardianship of the ruler was given as Allah sees it from every ruler. [3]

Contents

Kadızade Mehmed translated the book into Ottoman Turkish with additions and comments, called it "The Crown of Letters and the Path of Ways", and presented it to Murad IV. [4]

Volumes and chapters

The book is written in two volumes:

Chapters:

Chapters:

References

  1. المكتبة الشاملة https://web.archive.org/web/20171111041622/http://shamela.ws/index.php/book/31237
  2. Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn (2005). The Political Shariyah on Reforming the Ruler and the Ruled. Dar ul Fiqh. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  3. goodreads.com/book https://web.archive.org/web/20171111070909/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9911980
  4. Kouri, Muhammad Dawud (2017). Abdul Haq al-Turkmani [in Arabic] (ed.). The Call of the Reformist Group of Qadi Zadeh in the Ottoman Empire: Before the Emergence of the Call of Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Rise of the Saudi State (First ed.). Beirut: Dar al-Lulu’a. p. 101. ISBN   9781513619507.